The accoutrements are simple once you’ve located a table: a bat and a ball. If you’re looking to get into table tennis but aren’t quite sure where to start when it comes to choosing a bat ...

Table tennis can be played in either a singles or doubles format and involves using a small round bat to hit a lightweight ball back and forth across a table divided by a net. Table tennis ...

The Harold Wilcock Hard Bat Memorial Tournament is held annually in memory of the late Harold Wilcock who was a keen exponent of the 'hard bat' style of play that dominated table tennis prior to ...

A competitive table tennis ball should bounce 23 cm high when dropped from a height of 30 cm. In all competitions, the playing area for a full size table should be 8 m long by 4 m wide.

But in a lighter moment the King’s consort picked up a bat and ball and joined a group of teenagers having an impromptu match. She is known to like a game of ping-pong and with her table-tennis ...

The Queen could not resist a game of ping-pong when she joined the King at a Middlesbrough community centre to learn about inspiring projects. Charles and Camilla met a collection of charities and ...